Comfort and his wife, Ruth, divorced shortly after "Joy" came out: the unpleasantness of his infidelity seems to have been heightened for Mrs. Comfort when her husband became internationally known as "Dr. Sex".
Though the hurricane heightened her longing to comfort her family in person, the storm simultaneously deepened her bonds with current neighbors.
And though I felt a bit of 'ye old guilt when he uttered the words, "You really have it together," and thanked me for pacifying his relationship concerns with my one-night-only sense of heightened wisdom, I found comfort in one truth: if I was single in his eyes, he wouldn't have listened to me.
With respect to the emotional quality of care giving Solomon and George state that "mothers express intense feelings of pleasure and satisfaction when they are able to protect and comfort their children and that they experience heightened anger, sadness, anxiety or despair when their ability to protect and comfort the children is threatened or blocked" (page 835).
It has never seemed entirely a coincidence that in the years since 9/11 the dead have maintained a heightened presence on dramatic television, haunting and comforting and emboldening the living as ghosts and dreams and symbols of inextinguishable memory.
Oskar's guilt and anger are heightened by his mother's quickness to look for comfort in another man, Ron, whom she met at victims' support.
Although the dreams were not always pleasant, they usually provided some measure of comfort; they helped mourners accept their loss and led to heightened feelings of spirituality and an overall sense of well-being.
So far, that comforting formula seems to be adapting itself to more heightened threats, from drug cartels in New England and schoolyard shootings in the Midwest to arson attacks on the Pacific Coast.
"The memorial, rather than serving as a source of comfort, can heighten feelings of either 'This is unjust' or desires for revenge of some sort," she added.
Besides, the comfort of a good friend comes from the effortlessness of meaningful conversation and is further heightened by the knowledge you have nothing you would rather do.
